LAHORE: A helicopter belonging to the Punjab Rangers, with the Director General on board, crashed into the Indus River near Layyah District on Wednesday 1st June,2011.
Rangers Punjab DG Major General Muhammad Nawaz was aboard the copter at the time of crash.
According to eye-witnesses, the helicopter caught fire and crashed into the river.
They said that an explosion occurred before the crash.
Sources said that Rangers Punjab Director General Major General Muhammad Nawaz, along with two colonels and a captain, was aboard the copter, as they were going from Dera Ghazi Khan to Peshawar. The helicopter lost its contact from the control tower at 10:30am before it met with the accident, they said.
There are no reports of any survivors,” he said. One body had been recovered and rescue teams had located the wreckage, he added.Feroz confirmed reports that the helicopter had been piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Aamir Abbas.”The cause of the crash is being investigated. It appears to have been a technical fault, but the weather was also bad,” he said.
The Layyah district coordination officer was informed about the incident and he was on the way to reach the place of incident. According to villagers, they are unable to locate the helicopter.
The cause of crash could be bad weather conditions.
